review 1: This book is basically an improved remake of its predecessor, Heartless. The same themes and allegories appear, with little variation, but Rose Red is a much more appealing heroine than Una was and the descriptions and world-building are a bit more fleshed-out.A young prince name...

review 1: Another great book in the Tales of Goldstone Wood series. The third book continues the story of Leo and Rose Red that was started in the second book. While the second book started out a little slow then sped up to a nice ending, this book started out quickly, slowed down a litt...

review 1: I have read each one of Anne Elizabeth Stengl's books in this series and even though they do well on their own and draw people in with exquisite characters and exciting adventure, the real greatness of the allegory and even the characters themselves, I think, should really be enj...

review 1: QUICK HIT – Taking place sixteen hundred years before the first three novels in the series, Starflower takes us into the past but leaves us with two familiar characters who aren’t yet who we know them as. With majestic prose and compelling imagery, Stengl weaves a beautiful tale ...

review 1: A rather minor character (and one of my favorites) from the first book gets a bit more depth here and the series really begins to come into its own along with introducing more characters and fleshing out the world. For some reason I still like this character even when he reveals...

review 1: This is book 6 of Tales of Goldstone Wood. The book starts with a prologue and then continues several years later, after catastrophe has struck the land. There is limited explanation of this catastrophe and there is also references to several other events that took place durin...